Then Job answered and said,
How long will ye vex my soul,
And break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me:
Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
And be it indeed that I have erred,
Mine error remaineth with myself.
{Or, Will ye indeed…reproach?}If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me,
And plead against me my reproach;
Know now that God hath {Or, overthrown me}subverted me in my cause,
And hath compassed me with his net.
Behold, I {Or, cry out, Violence:}cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,
And hath set darkness in my paths.
He hath stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head.
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me,
And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
His troops come on together,
And cast up their way against me,
And encamp round about my tent.
He hath put my brethren far from me,
And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
My kinsfolk have failed,
And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
They that {Or, sojourn}dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer,
Though I entreat him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife,
And {Or, I make supplication Or, I am loathsome}my supplication to the children {Or, of my body}of mine own mother.
Even young children despise me;
If I arise, they speak against me.
All {Hebrew: the men of my council.}my familiar friends abhor me,
And they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
For the hand of God hath touched me.
Why do ye persecute me as God,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead
They were graven in the rock for ever!
{Or, For}But as for me I know that my {Or, vindicator Hebrew: goel.}Redeemer liveth,
And at last he will stand up upon the {Hebrew: dust.}earth:
{Or, And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God}And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed,
Then without my flesh shall I see God;
Whom I, even I, shall see, {Or, for myself}on my side,
And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger.
My {Hebrew: reins.}heart is consumed within me.
If ye say, How we will persecute him!
And that the root of the matter is found in me;
Be ye afraid of the sword:
For {Or, wrathful are}wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
That ye may know there is a judgment.
Querverweise zu Hiob 19,10 Hiob 19,10
And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
and {Hebrew: Sheba.}the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away: yea, they have slain the {Hebrew: young men.}servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the {Hebrew: young men.}servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and {Or, made a raid}fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the {Hebrew: young men.}servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;
and, behold, there came a great wind {Or, over}from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off,Even the {Hebrew: possessions.}thoughts of my heart.
What is my strength, that I should wait?And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
My days are like a shadow that {Or, is stretched out}declineth;And I am withered like grass.
So are the paths of all that forget God;And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
Whose confidence shall {Or, be cut off}break in sunder,And whose trust is a spider's {Hebrew: house.}web.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
He is green before the sun,And his shoots go forth over his garden.
His roots are wrapped {Or, beside the spring}about the stone-heap,He beholdeth the place of stones.
If he be destroyed from his place,Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried;And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.
Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul?Why hidest thou thy face from me?
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Thy fierce wrath is gone over me;Thy terrors have cut me off.
They came round about me like water all the day long;They compassed me about together.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me,And mine acquaintance {Or, are darkness}into darkness.
Where then is my hope?And as for my hope, who shall see it?
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel;He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds;And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
The womb shall forget him;The worm shall feed sweetly on him;He shall be no more remembered;And unrighteousness shall be broken {Or, as a tree; even he that devoureth &c.}as a tree.
And he hath violently taken away his {Or, booth Or, hedge}tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly:Jehovah hath caused {Or, appointed feast}solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion,And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
I have seen the wicked in great power,And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
{Or, Yet he passed away}But one passed by, and, lo, he was not:Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
pursued, yet not {Or, left behind}forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;